# Books You Read When Younger For "Dirty Bits" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 8, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732 "2005-09-08T22:35:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/81 "2005-09-17T12:20:28Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Oh, my goodness, yes! I have thing for short, solidly built men. And Cutter and Skywise all but had my teenage twanger tingling… Well, that’s not quite what I had in mind, but as a friend of mine likes to say, you get the steak and I’ll have the fish and we’ll call it good a night out 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/82 "2005-09-18T19:44:04Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > The biggest one was one my grandfather had, entitled _Go Boy!_ It was a book about prison life in Canada in the 1950s, by one of the country’s most notorious career criminals, Roger Caron. At that time they were still using corporal punishment. _prrrrr_ You, good sir, are a _very_ naughty boy. _SMACK!_ (That will be 3.99 for the first minute, .99 for each additional minute. Some restrictions may apply.) I thought of another one: _The Northern Girl_ by Elizabeth A. Lynn. I’m guessing that Ms. Lynn is wunna dem der homerseckshuals, since all the sex scenes in this trilogy (and there seemed to be about one or two good ones per installment) are same-gendered (and no, there is nothing wrong with that…these books were simply my first introduction to said concept). Fits this thread for two reasons: The cover painting by Eric Ladd of Sorren, the main character (which I found inexplicably sexy for some reason…anybody know where I can snag a poster or a good wallpaper of this?), and the scene she has with her girlfriend. Sorren was HOT. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/83 "2005-09-18T22:17:01Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > _Raptor_! I wouldn’t really call any of Jennings’ books appropriate material for kids… Hopefully none of the books in this thread were appropriate material for kids, and therein lay the sweaty-palmed delight of illicit discovery. Kids today - spoilt with this new-fangled intramaweb, I tells ya. In _my_ day we took our jollies where we could find 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/84 "2005-09-18T23:31:13Z")
Found mom’s copy of _Sign of the Scorpion_ when I was a young teen. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/85 "2005-09-18T23:39:30Z")
Star Trek books: Imzadi, some of the early DS9 books, others. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/86 "2005-09-19T00:24:02Z")
My mom had a lot of Old West-themed romance novels. Dirty cowboys and innocent farm girls, that sort of thing. She also was an avid consumer of Silhouette and Harlequin romances. In turn, I was, er, enriched by her purchases. Also, another person for **Clan of the Cave Bear** and its sequels, though I never felt quite the same about those books after a certain ex of mine told me he read them and considered Jondalar his role model. Snerk. **honeydewgrrl** , **The Shelters of Stone** isn’t that great, true, but do you want a copy? Send me an e-mail if so. I managed to get rid of the other books but that one’s still hanging around. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/87 "2005-09-19T00:43:22Z")
😕 “When Younger”? ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/88 "2005-09-19T01:30:07Z")
When I was about 10 or so, I picked up my dad’s copy of _Dune_ and flipped it open to a random page. Someone was damning fate and his inamorata’s nipple was getting hard under his hand. I’ve never been able to find that page again. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/89 "2005-09-19T05:13:51Z")
> [@Giant\_Spongess](#): > > Oh, and _The Shelters of Stone_ sucks. That’s okay, because so does Ayla. She invented it, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![priapus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@priapus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/priapus)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/90 "2005-09-19T05:58:11Z")
I remember a friend’s dad bought “Naked Came The Stranger”…and then we got our grubby 15 yr old hands on it [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732.md?page=4)